Lawrence Journal-World 08-16-14

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Friend’s shooting death inspires ultra athletic feat By Giles Bruce Twitter: @GilesBruce

’ve always loved eating food in a truck (my F150 is the one with splotches of Krispy Kreme glaze on the windshield, and my slacks are the ones with orange juice spilled in an inopportune spot.) But it has been interesting to The new watch how many people regulations love to eat food served a truck. Well, look don’t open from for that trend to accelerate the door for because proposed changes food trucks at City Hall may usher in a new era for food trucks in to park Lawrence. on public City commissioners are property. set to approve some new regulations that should make it much easier for food trucks to set up shop for long periods of time on private property. Commissioners at their Tuesday evening meeting will consider removing the regulation that

Raven Rajani didn’t know Justin Sneegas for that long. But the time she spent with him had a big impact on her. He would often visit her downtown Lawrence dog bakery with his family. The two of them bonded over their mutual love of animals. Their personalities really seemed to click. Then, several months ago, Justin’s mom, Linda, came into Rajani’s store wearing a button with his picture on it. Linda told her Justin had been shot and killed. “I was just devastated. I immediately started crying,” Rajani recalled. Linda gave Rajani a business card with a photo of Justin and his two dogs. On the back it said: “Keep Justin’s kindness

Please see TRUCKS, page 2A

Governor sticks to hard-line message despite lagging in polls

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How to help To donate to the Justice for Justin 50-mile Trail Run, which goes to support Douglas County CASA and the Kansas City Pet Project, visit www.gofundme.com/ a8rhck.

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LAWRENCE RESIDENT RAVEN RAJANI is pictured with Linda Sneegas and Sneegas’ daughter, Jessica Callagy, who are the mother and sister of Rajani’s friend Justin Sneegas, a Lawrence native who was shot to death in Independence, Mo. Rajani will be doing a 50-mile trail run at Clinton Lake to raise money for charities that were important to Justin, who is pictured above with his beloved dogs.

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District implementing national sex-ed standards By Scott Rothschild Twitter: @ljwrothschild

The Lawrence school district will have national sexuality education standards in place for the entire district this school year. “The national standards are more comprehensive,” than state standards, said Sarah Oatsvall, assistant director of teaching and learning for the district. The goal of the curriculum is to provide students with a healthy selfimage, promote good behaviors and

help students make good decisions, Oatsvall said. Last year, the school board adopted the more comprehensive standards over ones approved by the State Board of Education in 2006. The national standards add more information about forms of birth control and material about sexual orientation. This year the standards should be implemented districtwide. The district has an “opt-out” provision for people who don’t want their Please see DISTRICT, page 2A

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These standards support curriculum that presents sexual development as a normal, natural, healthy part of human development.”

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Topeka — The latest poll in the Kansas governor’s race showed troubling news for Gov. Sam Brownback’s re-election campaign. After winning his first term in 2010 with 62 percent of the vote, the Republican governor now finds himself running 10 Brownback points behind a Democrat with little statewide name recognition. Even more troubling, the Rasmussen Reports survey showed Brownback losing 30 percent of his own party’s voters to Rep. Paul Davis, of Lawrence, the Kansas House minority leader. Those numbers were not surprising to people who have followed the campaign. A month earlier, Please see MESSAGE, page 2A Davis

Burglary charges Four men Lawrence police named as suspects in a rash of burglaries overnight Thursday were formally charged Friday in Douglas County court. Page 3A

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